Colored green above, a songbird's cortex, which dominates the bird brain anatomy, functions similarly to a human cortex. It is the outer brain shell responsible for controlling perception and some ...

Wilder Penfield, a pioneering brain surgeon, mapped the motor cortex using mild electric current. Wilder Penfield took the next exploratory voyage into the brain starting in the 1940s. While ...

What is Cortical Visual Impairment (CVI)? CVI refers to a brain condition, not an eye condition and results from damage to the visual systems in the brain that deal with processing and integrating ...

Over the course of human evolution, our brains expanded massively. One of the areas that ballooned over the past few million years is the cerebral cortex, the wrinkly outer layer of the brain. It ...

Could it be possible that someone is a better reader because of their brain anatomy? A study published ... Learning a new language can help increase cortical thickness. Cortical thickness affects ...

Cortical Labs‘ CL1 Synthetic Biological Intelligence (SBI), the world’s first computer to combine human brain cells with conventional chips to form a neural network, has been launched into commercial ...

Silvia Velasco, a stem cell researcher at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute has used brain organoids to understand how the human cerebral cortex forms in humans. "[The cerebral cortex ...

An Australian startup has unveiled the world’s first commercial biological computer that runs on living human brain cells. Melbourne-based Cortical Labs launched the CL1 at Mobile World Congress ...